Click Here to Submit your Application for Summer Research
[the 2026 Application Portal will open in February 2026]
Summer 2026 Program Dates
As with previous summers, programming related to summer research, scholarship, and creative projects (regardless of their funding source) will need to take place within one of the four possible summer sessions. As of November 2025, we do not yet have these dates finalized. However, we anticipate that they will be similar to those in Summer 2025. Please visit this page to find more information on the start and end dates of the Summer 2025 Research and Scholarship Program.
Student-Faculty Research (SFR) Program
Allegheny’s curriculum of developmentally appropriate undergraduate research experiences serve as the spine of our award winning research program. The Office of URSCA further supports and engages students outside of the classroom by funding collaborative Student-Faculty Research (SFR) projects during the summer. The SFR is a competitive College-wide program that provides financial awards for projects up to 8-weeks over the summer to students who wish to conduct research/scholarship, or work on a creative project, in collaboration with an Allegheny College faculty mentor. Click here to download the 2026 Summer SFR Proposal and work with your summer faculty mentor to complete the proposal.
Summer Science Program Research Program
The Office of URSCA Received a grant from a private foundation to support summer research science students that are participating in Allegheny College’s Student-Faculty Research Program. This specific program provides summer awards to science students who are majoring in Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Environmental Sciences and Sustainability, Neuroscience, and Physics. Click here to download the 2026 Summer Science Program Research Proposal and work with your summer faculty mentor to complete the proposal.
To participate in either of these programs:
- locate a potential summer faculty mentor whose academic interests align with their own and work with them to develop a collaborative project
- download the appropriate proposal (using the above links)
- submit your completed proposal to the Summer Application Portal Google Form [the 2026 Application Portal will open in February 2026] and upload the completed proposal to the appropriate location in the Google form (due Friday March 27 2026 for URSCA programming)
- notify your summer faculty mentor that the Director of URSCA will be reaching out to them so that they can complete a Recommendation Form.
Funding decisions are typically announced in April of each academic year.
Please contact Prof. Matt Venesky (mvenesky@allegheny.edu) if you’d like to learn more about summer opportunities on campus.
Other Summer Research Opportunities
The SFR Program through the Office of URSCA is only one of multiple ways in which you can participate in paid summer research and scholarship. For example, Community Impact Hub offers community-engaged opportunities for students wishing to conduct a project over the summer. Past projects include: partnering with the Meadville YMCA, PA Environmental Council Glacier’s Edge Tourism Project, Crawford County Health Care Inventory, Assessing Hunger and Food Insecurity in the Meadville Community, and many more!
The Community Impact Hub has their own proposal which gets submitted to the Summer Application Portal Google Form [the 2026 Application Portal will open in February 2026]. To learn more about the summer opportunities in the Community Impact Hub, contact Colin Hurley (churley@allegheny.edu) or Prof. Lauren Paulson (lpaulson@allegheny.edu) for more information.